2 3 6  THE  CHINESE  EMPIRE
275,000.  The  walls  and  city,  and  the  tombs  of  the  e  Jf,
Ming  Emperors  attract  visitors  ;  but  the  pride  o  ,  D .
the  famous  porcelain  pagoda  erected  by  ung
1403-24),  was  destroyed  by  the  Taipings.  an  in  ,  the
capital  of  the  Viceroyalty  of  the  Two  Kiang,
Governor  of  Kiangsu  has  his  seat  at  Soochow.  rS
treaty  made  by  China  with  any  of  the  maritime  p
was  the  British  treaty  of  1842,  signed  at  Nanking.  ..
French  treaty  of  1858  provided  for  the  opening  of  a
then  in  the  hands  of  the  Taipings  ;  but  when,  m  i  .  ’
British  and  French  Commissioners  visited  the  p  ace,
decided  that  the  trade  prospects  were  too  unprom
and  it  was  actually  opened  as  a  treaty  P or ^  ^, m  eve r,
The  principal  industry  is  silk-weaving,  w  ic  1,
has  not  fully  recovered  from  the  dislocation  cause  s
disorders  of  the  Taiping  occupation,  the  num  er  o
being  said  to  have  been  50,000  in  the  city  and  its  imm  ^
vicinity  before  the  rebellion,  and  to  be  only  5&gt; 000  now ‘
development  of  trade  is  shown  by  the  following  figures  .

1900
1904

Imports.
Tls.
2,158,311
5,296,119

Exports.
Tls.
1,710,284
3,529,929

Total.
Tls.
3,868,595
8,826,048

The  imports  comprised  the  usual  requirements  o  a
tributing  centre,  and  of  exports  nearly  two-thirds  o
value  consisted  of  satin  (Tls.2,335,000).  .  -
Chinkiang  (32°  13'  N.,  119 0  25'  E.),  occupies
important  position  near  to  the  point  where  the  Yang
leaves  the  old  geologic  formation  and  becomes  more
less  deltaic  in  character,  and  at  the  point  where  the  Graß
Canal  is  intersected  by  the  Yangtze.  By  means  of  ^
Grand  Canal  it  is  a  distributing  and  collecting  centre  °
a  large  area,  extending  into  Shantung,  Honan,  Anhwei,  an
even  into  Chihli.  The  city,  with  a  population  of  170,°° 0 ^
was  opened  to  foreign  trade  in  1861,  and  the  foreign  r eSl ^
dential  quarter  is  on  the  British  concession,  administer 0